# Is This a Common Workplace Practice in the US?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-common-workplace-practice-in-the-us/370026>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 24, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-common-workplace-practice-in-the-us/370026 "2006-08-24T12:39:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-common-workplace-practice-in-the-us/370026/21 "2006-08-29T06:47:15Z")

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For me, it was a growing feeling that the department I was in was falling apart. Eventually, it did.

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**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-common-workplace-practice-in-the-us/370026/22 "2006-08-29T16:12:44Z")

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Same with me - I had gone through a few supervisors (like four in eight months!) and I had a very bad feeling - I left marketing and ended up in R&D. Much better. Now my old group is completely gone - and my group is hiring. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-common-workplace-practice-in-the-us/370026/23 "2006-08-29T16:25:07Z")

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> [@threemae](#):
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> I’m curious, if tranferring departments is such a big deal that people consider leaving firms over it, exactly what is the strong impetus behind wanting to transfer so badly?

In my case it would have been going from babysitting the production of an obsolete avionics box, to designing the next generation of such boxes. I’d been doing the former for a couple of years, and had shone on the lone design related bone that was thrown my way only because others had declared the task was impossible.

So I wanted to go from mind numbingly dull work, to challenging work that I had displayed a talent for.

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